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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Carrying developing offspring within the body.
  2. adj. Weighty or significant; full of meaning: a conversation occasionally punctuated by pregnant pauses.
  3. adj. Of great or potentially great import, implication, or moment: "It was a politically pregnant time in Poland” ( New York).
  4. adj. Filled or fraught; replete: "This was, from the Party's point of view, both deplorable in itself and pregnant with danger for the future” ( Robert Conquest).
  5. adj. Having a profusion of ideas; creative or inventive.
  6. adj. Producing results; fruitful: a pregnant decision.
  7. adj. Archaic Convincing; cogent. Used of an argument or a proof.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Being with young; big with child; gravid: as, a pregnant woman.
  2. Impregnated; filled; big: generally followed by with.
  3. Heavily laden; freighted.
  4. Full of meaning; giving food for thought; suggestive; significant; destined to develop important thought.
  5. Full of promise; of unusual capacity, ability, or wit; shrewd; witty; ingenious; expert.
  6. Characterized by readiness of wit; keen; apt; clever.
  7. Ready; disposed; prompt; susceptible.
  8. Convincing; easily seen; clear; evident; probable in the highest degree.
  9. In logic, requiring an explanation; exponible.
  10. n. One who is pregnant, or with child.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. not comparable Carrying developing offspring within the body.
  2. adj. comparable Having numerous possibilities or implications.
  3. adj. Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground etc.).
  4. adj. obsolete Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
  2. adj. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty.
  3. adj. obsolete Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc..
  4. n. rare A pregnant woman.
  5. adj. obsolete Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. filled with or attended with
  2. adj. carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
  3. adj. rich in significance or implication

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), partly from Old French preindre, priembre ("to press"), from Latin premere ("to press"), and partly from Classical Latin praegnans, variant of praegnas, probably from prae- ("pre-") + gnascī ("to be born"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praegnāns, praegnant-, variant of praegnās; see genə- in Indo-European roots.Middle English, probably from Old French preignant, present participle of prembre, to press, from Latin premere; see per-4 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (9)

Words with the same meaning

  1. breeding
  1. teeming
  1. gravid
  1. weighty
  1. receptive
  1. yielding
  1. willing
  1. open
  1. prompt

equivalents (10)

Other words for ‘pregnant’

  1. full
  2. enceinte
  1. great
  2. gravid
  1. heavy
  2. big
  1. large
  2. expectant
  1. with child
  2. meaningful

hyponyms (1)

Words that are more specific

  1. in trouble

same context (13)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. unhappy
  2. young
  1. pretty
  2. fraught
  1. uncomfortable
  2. depress
  1. sexy
  2. vulnerable
  1. nervous
  2. willing
  1. teenage
  2. apt
  1. attractive

reverse dictionary (108)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. gravid
  2. affirmative pregnant
  3. gravidity
  4. nonpregnant
  5. maternity
  6. enceinte
  7. enseint
  8. German measles
  9. ingravidation
  10. impregnant
  11. impregnate
  12. conceive
  13. go
  14. great
  15. heavy
  16. to knock up
  17. gravidated
  18. great-bellied
  19. hysteromalacia
  20. metrectasia
  21. multigravida
  1. plurifetation
  2. teemful
  3. teeming
  4. unpregnant
  5. breed
  6. gestant
  7. matterful
  8. pregnantly
  9. primigravida
  10. bag
  11. full
  12. child-great
  13. childing
  14. enwomb
  15. greaten
  16. halictus
  17. imparous
  18. primipara
  19. farrow
  20. expectant
  21. knock
  1. family way
  2. pregnancy
  3. big
  4. to be with child
  5. in the family way
  6. in foal
  7. in-calver
  8. tertigravida
  9. toxoplasmosis
  10. pregnant
  11. young
  12. unigravida
  13. prang up
  14. pregnancy test
  15. pregnanediol
  16. pseudocyesis
  17. purse-string operation
  18. rabbit test
  19. secundigravida
  20. shirodkar's operation
  21. carry
  1. child
  2. expect
  3. teem
  4. mother
  5. gone
  6. quick
  7. false pregnancy
  8. fetoscope
  9. foetoscope
  10. friedman test
  11. gravida i
  12. gravida iii
  13. have a bun in the oven
  14. honest woman
  15. knock up
  16. lamaze method
  17. lamaze method of childbirth
  18. seedful
  19. acquired immunity
  20. amnio
  21. amniocentesis
  1. bang up
  2. bear
  3. childbirth-preparation class
  4. conception
  5. couvade
  6. gestate
  7. gestation
  8. gravida
  9. gravida ii
  10. quick with child
  11. to be in the straw
  12. surrogate mother
  13. to
  14. venter
  15. virgin
  16. with young
  17. barren
  18. bound
  19. emphasis
  20. fertile
  21. longing
  1. hold
  2. who
  3. witty

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  • kewpid How soon until the kid gets their own account? >.< Sep 10, 2009

  • chained_bear Well, okay, but it's still funny. Sep 10, 2009

  • reesetee Honestly, I'd like to laugh at that, but I've seen so many...er, personal...announcements on Facebook that it almost doesn't faze me. Sep 9, 2009

  • chained_bear "On Facebook." Sep 9, 2009

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